St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-07
CHINESE BABY TRArrEcMERs

| San Francisco Examiner
when the yellow man begins To orv ont
about the doings of his yellow neighh0r on
a point which has some interest for white
| men as well the plant is worth NOTICING.
| ana When people but emerging from the
darkness OF barbarouS usage. like the ian
aneSe, who have un til quite recently been
so closely allied to their neighbors. the Chi
| neSe. as to almost SurpaSs them in sor,o
OF the most acute forms of oriental depro-
daticn, are becoming aroused at a discovery
or the extensive traffic in Japanese female
chifdren which is being carried on in their
country by Chinese residents and agents
| the subject cannot be devoid of interest for
this side Of the Pacific.
The japanese are by no means a moral
race, and their regard for the sex NAV he
summed up in the fact that female slavery
III subdued form is still one of the legal
yea forms OF the country. The Land of
| the Rising Sun Is WOrd-famed in it's dawn
on All era OF stoye-ppe hats and European
| tltleS Tor an extent of prohigacv somewhat
Ill advance of that perfected in such cities
as Vienna Paris and New York. .Jananesa
| poetry and romance place the daughter W bo
! VIII sell herself to Il life of shame for relief
OF her INDECENT parents on the highest and
most admired pinnacle of filial devotion
| Maidenly virtue is only just becoming to be
regarded as III any way a quality of virtue:
IN fact, the Three Little Maids From
School, however innOcently presented TO onr
fancies from a Gilbertian abstract. are in
reality sunk in the lowest of world-wide
depths of female debasement So that
| when the japanese begin to think of nro-
tcctlng their women from the inroads of
Chinese traffic i'll female children the issue
must be grave enough one
Despite the prohibition in Japan of the
traffic III children the Nainichi Shimhon
says that the Oh nese at Nagasalz still en-
deayor to carry on this wretched nursuit
the operations seeming principally re-
stricted to young girls. The latest purchase
that has come to light was that of ona
Quong Ken,a Chinese resident of NagasaLj.
who bought girl of II years old for the
paltry sum OF twenty yen. The purchase
was made through japanese procuress.
regularly employed by the Chinaman, who
received couple OF yen for having nego-
| tiated the transaction. Similar Offenses
are all The time being committed by natives
OF the Celestial empire, and the MANY
| engaged in them have no other Ostensibia
calling. In fact it is all part of an ey-
| tenSlvely organized and regular trade. The
advancing Japanese have shown some
very admirable national pride in their
efforts to abolish the traffic already. A
great demand had set in from Chinese ports
| for Japanese women. and the foreign center
OF Shanghai was fast becoming crowded
with them. Your Chinese debauchee found
the prettily-mannered, comely and artisti-
caly attired daughters of Niphon even mora
| to his liking than the small-foored beauties
| of SoochoW. Every steamer from ,Janan
landed its consignment. and the demand
was ever increasing, when Taro Ando. the
Japanese consul. stepped in with authority
from his government to depOrt every cues
| tiOnable woman of his nationality back To
NagaSaki, and in less than a fortnight the
reproach was removed that, where the
| JapanSe men could not obtain footbOId i'm
| China, there was room for all the women
| that could be sent over.
| No matter where the Chinese go. and no
m after under what form OF government
they are living, they are bound to carry
out their ides of woman as marketable
article. In Hong Kong, under govern
ment that airs its boast that slavery can
not exist under the shadows of its flag.
women are bought and sold every day. In
the British settlement at Shanghai regular
auctions of women are hell under more
cOld-blOoded circumstances than Arab ba-
Ears or those slave auctions in the South
which were the main cause of such a
| mighty upheaval in this country. 1t is a
part OF the system of the Chinese. and can
no more be eradcated in places where it
has gained a fOothold than the Chinese
themselves. So long as the Chinese con-
fined their buying an selling operations
to their own women the subject
did not present such an acute inter-
est for the rest of the world.
But, unfortunately. the Chinaman is
awakening to the superiority of foreign
productions over his OWE native article.
Chinese are now endeavorng in ali parts of
the world to which they migrate to contract
| temporary marriages with white women,
and if. when the time comes to return to
China, it is not elected to desert both
family and wife the unfortunate dune.
who has perhaps thought she entered into
! perfectly legal union is prevailed upon to
accompany her lord to China, she will have
to take the place of third or fourth wife
l. e., marketable and prosecuted concu-
bne-in a native establishment. Some
very lamentable occurrences of this kind
have been brought TO notice in late wears.
To the woman who contracts a union with
Chinaman who has left his country an
adult, the chances are almost sure that she
takes up with one who has already a wife
or two.
But this is not so much the way in which
the Celestial purposes to provide himself
with white female cattle, as by the process
which is just now concerning the Japanese
so intensely To purchase babies and rear
them in all necessary servitude and igno-
rance is more safe and satisfactory
method. Hence. we have Chinese in this
country endeavoring to buy up the children
OF abandoned white parents, for as the Chi
neSe gain in power here and become more
used to oyerrunning all our Institutions,
they are bound to turn their attention
steadily toward appropriating some of our
womankind. Chinese servants in white
families located in the far East are every
now and then being discovered in the most
frighttul outrages on young children, and
penchant for corrupting youth is one of the
yilest traits of the race. But more than
this. kidnapping is all the time being re-
sorted to, and with growing market for
Western beauty all these indications should
be watched by Californians, who have
among them 100. 600 mateless beings, whose
only complaint against the country must be-
that they cannot emulate the Sabine out.
rage. F.S